Haery allday



V UNITED 'Ta'rns HARRY ALLDAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND:

MATC H-STRIKING COMPOSITIQN.

SPECIFICATION- forming part of Letters Patent N'O. 579,913, dated March1897. A Application filed August 8, 1896. Serial No. 602,179.specimens.) Patented in England May 12, 1896, No. 10,041-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY ALLDAY, manufacturing jeweler, a subject ofthe Queen of Great Britain, residing at Warstone Lane, in the city ofBirmingham, England, have invented a certain new and useful Match-Striker, of which the following is a specification, and for whichLetters Patent of Great Britain have been granted to me bearing date ofMay 12, 1896, and numbered 10,041.

This invention relates to the striker parts of match-bones, also, tomatch-strikers applicable for use in dressing-cases, upon inkstands,blotters, smoking-tables, andthe like; also, in railway-carriages,public and private vehicles, public and private buildings andapartments, and for other uses, and has for its object a' positive and.practically indestructible'strike'r applicable for striking,indiiferently, both ordinary vestas and luoifer matches, and alsosafety-matches, or those matches of the Bryant and May type which onlstrike upon the specially-prepared striking-strips of the boxes in whichthey are sold.

My said invention consists in the employment of a solid composition madeup, primarily, o phosphorus (preferably amorphous phosphorus) and emery,or some similar frictional' material combined with and consolidated bygum-thus, which will produce the necessary cohesion;

Thus in carrying out one form of my invention I take nine parts byweight of phosphorus and twelve parts by weight of emery and mix thesame together with four parts by weight of gum-thus into a homogeneousmass, which while in a soft state or pasty condition is rolled out flatto any desired thickness, from which slabs, panels, or the like are out,and which when dried and hardened are used alone as match-strikers bybeing cementedor otherwise connected to a wall or other surface, or bybeing let within a'recess formed in a match-box, inkstand, or otherarticle.

It is understood that in the consolidated.

match-striker thus produced the phosphorus is employed for strikingsafetymatches, While the emery or gritty substance is for strikingordinary matches, while the gumthus is for the purpose of producing thenec-' HARRY ALLDAY.

\Vitnesscs:

HENRY SKERRETT, ARTHUR 'l. SADLER.

